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English

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

1. Name of the department - ENGLISH

2. Year of Establishment - 1984

3. Names of Programmes / Courses offered (UG, PG, M. Phil., Ph.D., Integrated Masters; Integrated Ph.D., etc.) - UG

S. No.	Level	Course	Description
1.	UG	B.A/B.Sc./B.Com/ B.Sc. (Home Sci.)	English Language & English Literature

4. Names of Interdisciplinary courses and the departments/units involved - NIL

5. Annual/ semester/choice based credit system (programme wise) - Annual

6. Participation of the department in the courses offered by other departments –

Since Foundation Course is compulsory hence English is taught in courses of all the
Four streams.

7. Courses in collaboration with other universities, industries, foreign institutions, etc. -
NIL

8. Details of courses/programmes discontinued (if any) with reasons - NONE

9. Number of Teaching posts

	Sanctioned	Filled
Professors	-	-
Associate Professors	-	-
Asst. Professors	01	01

10. Faculty profile with name, qualification, designation, specialization, (D.Sc./D.Litt.
/Ph.D. / M. Phil. etc.,)

Name	Qualification	Designation	Specialization	No. of Years of Experience	No. of Ph.D. Students guided for the last 4 years
Dr. Harpreet Kaur Garcha	M.A., Ph.d.	A.P.	Afro- American Literature	32 years	--

11. List of senior visiting faculty

S. No	Name of the Faculty	Topic of Lecture	Date
1.	Prof. S.K. Jain	Learning Communication Skills	11-08-2012
2.	Dr. Neelu Shrivastav	Problems in Learning English	14-12-2012
3.	Dr. Shukla Banerjee	The Writings of Tagore	05-09-2013
4.	Dr. Savitri Tripathi	Listening Skills in Learning the Second Language	17-10-2013
5.	Dr. Anita Shankar	Indian English Writings	28-10-2014
6.	Dr. Amrita Kasturi	Common Errors in Prepositions	15-1-2015

12. Percentage of lectures delivered and practical classes handled(programme wise) by temporary faculty - NIL

13. Student -Teacher Ratio (programme wise)

Student -Teacher Ratio

1540 : 1

14. Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff; sanctioned and filled - NIL

15. Qualifications of teaching faculty with DSc/ D.Litt/ Ph.D/ MPhil / PG. - Ph.D

16. Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) National b) International funding

agencies and grants received - 01 (UGC)

17. Departmental projects funded by DST - FIST; UGC, DBT, ICSSR, etc. and total grants received - UGC

18. Research Centre /facility recognized by the University - NIL

19. Publications:
∗ a) Publication per faculty
∗ Number of papers published in peer reviewed journals (national / international) by
faculty and students
∗ Number of publications listed in International Database (For Eg: Web of Science,
Scopus, Humanities International Complete, Dare Database - International Social
Sciences Directory, EBSCO host, etc.)
∗ Monographs
∗ Chapter in Books
∗ Books Edited
∗ Books with ISBN/ISSN numbers with details of publishers
∗ Citation Index
∗ SNIP
∗ SJR
∗ Impact factor

S. No	Title of Paper	Name of Journal	ISSBN No.	National/ International
1.	Alice Walker‘s Meridian: Re- Examining Gender Roles	Literary Discourse : A Peer-reviewed International Research Journal of Literature and Arts	09762035	International
2.	Alice Walker‘s: The life of Grange Copeland: Saga of Existence and Transcendence	Literati: A Research Journal of English Studies and Culture	09731474	National
3.	Redefining Woman	An International Research	0975282X	International

∗ h-index

	Hood: Anita Desai‘s Clear Light of Day	Journal: LAB TO LAND
4.	Ecocentric Perspectives In Literature	An International Research Journal: LAB TO LAND	0975282X	International

20. Areas of consultancy and income generated - NIL

21. Faculty as members in

a) National committees b) International Committees c) Editorial Boards….

- Member Board Of Studies Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur

22. Student projects

a) Percentage of students who have done in-house projects including inter departmental/programme - NIL
b) Percentage of students placed for projects in organizations outside the institution i.e.in Research laboratories/Industry/ other agencies

Students carried out Research Surveys on Drop-Out Rate of School going children sponsored by RUSA.

23. Awards / Recognitions received by faculty and students - NIL

24. List of eminent, academicians and scientists / visitors to the department

S. No	Name of the Faculty	Designation
1.	Prof. S.K. Jain	Professor of English (Retd.)
2.	Dr. Neetu Shrivastav	HOD, Deptt. of English, Govt. Digvijay College, Rjn
3.	Dr. Shukla Banerjee	HOD, Deptt. of English, Govt. Sci. College, Raipur
4.	Dr. Savitri Tripathi	HOD, Deptt. of English, Govt. College, Bilaspur
5.	Dr. Anita Shankar	Prof., Deptt. of English, Govt. Digvijay college, Rjn
6.	Dr. Amrita Kasturi	Prof. & Head, Deptt. of Enlgish, Govt. College, Bhilai- 3.

7. Dr. Manju Mitra Retd. Principal, Govt. College, Bilaspur

25. Seminars/ Conferences/Workshops organized & the source of funding

a) National – Convener- National Seminar on “Women Empowerment & Sports” organized by Sports Department.

b) International – NIL

26. Student profile programme/course wise:

Name of the Courses	2013-2014				2014-2015
Name of the Courses	Applic Received	Admis	Pass	(%)	Applic Received	Admis	Pass	(%)
B.A-I	142	137	126	91.97%	165	157	110	70.06%
B.A-II	106	106	103	97.16%	69	69	50	72.46%
B.A-III	30	30	29	96%	55	55	48	87.27%
B.Com-I	12	12	10	83.3%	10	10	10	100%
B.Com-II	06	06	06	100%	10	10	10	100%
B.Com-III	08	08	08	100%	08	08	07	87.5%
B.H.Sc.-I	22	21	03	14%	39	36	15	42%
B.H.Sc-II	13	13	04	31%	09	09	06	67%
B.H.Sc-III	13	13	13	100%	11	11	08	73%
B.A- Lit-I	03	03	0	0%	04	04	0	0%
B.A- Lit-II	-	-	-	-	02	02	01	50%
B.A- Lit- III	04	04	04	100%	-	-	-	0%
TOTAL PERCENTAGE OF AVERAGE				67.78%	TOTAL PERCENTAGE OF AVERAGE			62.44%

27. Diversity of Students

	% of	% of students	% of
Name of the	Students	from other	Students
Course	from the	States	From
	same state		Abroad
B.A.	100	0	NIL
B.Sc	100	0	0
B.Sc (Home Sci.)	100	0	0
B.Com	100	0	0

28. How many students have cleared national and state competitive examinations such as
NET, SLET, GATE, Civil services, Defense services, etc.?
- No Track record is available

29. Student progression

Student progression	Against % enrolled
UG to PG	20%
PG to M.Phil.	02%
PG to Ph.D.	02%
Ph.D. to Post-Doctoral	NIL
Employed • Campus selection • Other than campus recruitment	NIL 05%
Entrepreneurship/Self-employment	05%

30. Details of Infrastructural facilities

a) Library
- All the students of under graduate level have access to the college Library.

No. of Books Available in General Library: 491+200 in book bank. Total = 691

The Department also has its own departmental library with a good no. of books.

b) Internet facilities for Staff & Students

- The College has a well equipped Language Lab with a computer. There is
Wi-Fi connectivity in the campus with 1 MBPS speed.

c) Class rooms with ICT facility - NIL

d) Laboratories

- The department proposes to have a well-equipped Language Laboratory.

31. Number of students receiving financial assistance from college, university, government or other agencies

- All the eligible students SC/ST/OBC/BPL minorities are getting scholarships as per state and central governments rules.

32. Details on student enrichment programmes (special lectures / workshops / seminar) with external experts

S.No	Name of the Faculty	Topic of Lecture	Date	Remark
1.	Prof. S.K. Jain	Learning Communication Skills	11-08-2012	Lecture
2.	Dr. Neetu Shrivastav	Problems in Learning English	14-12-2012	Lecture
3.	Dr. Shukla Banerjee	The Writings of Tagore	05-09-2013	Lecture
4.	Dr. Savitri Tripathi	Listening Skills in Learning the Second Language	17-10-2013	Lecture
5.	Dr. Anita Shankar	Indian English Writings	28-10-2014	Lecture
6.	Dr. Amrita Kasturi	Common Errors in Prepositions	15-1-2015	Lecture
7.	Dr. Manju Mitra (Retd. Principal)	Personality Development	16-08-2015	Workshop

33. Teaching methods adopted to improve student learning
- Beyond Chalk and Board delivery method
- Interaction
- Group discussions

34. Participation in Institutional Social Responsibility (ISR) and Extension activities:

Active Participation in all the Curricular & Extra-Curricular activities organized by the college.

35. SWOC analysis of the department and Future plans.

The department constantly monitors the performance of the students in comprehensive constant evaluation tests that is conducted every month.

Poor performers and poor learners are marked and they are given special attention.
The poor learners are given remedial teaching if necessary. Strengths:

Well qualified faculty.
English language lab.
Departmental library.
Adequate teaching aids.

Weakness :

Level of awareness of the students due to their rural background.
Lack of teachers and classrooms in proportion to the number of students.
Job opportunities and placement problems.
Lack of professional courses.
Communication skills and soft skills.

Opportunities:

Opportunities for PG and research.
Poor employment ratio.
Job opportunities in teaching and administration.
Scope for starting vocational and add-on courses.

Challenges:

Infrastructure facilities in proportion to the number of students.
Access to computer and internet in proportion to the number of students.
To create an environment for English language as the majority of students come from remote rural areas.

Future plans:

The department needs to develop tutorial cell and promote individualized instruction to the students.
To increase the number of teaching faculty.
To organize national seminars on Shakespeare.
To have more extension lectures.
Updating of language lab.

Faculties Profile

Dr. Harpreet Kaur Garcha (Birth-17^th Oct, 1960) is a Senior Asstt. Professor in English at Rajnandgaon Dist. Rajnandgaon (Chhattisgarh).

Her Research articles are published in reputed National and International Journals. Her areas of interest are: Feminism, Women Writers, Psychoanalysis and American Literature.

She has to her credit completion of UGC sponsored MRP Titled: Identifying Learning Disabilities and their Overcomes: With Special Reference to English Language Learners and Teachers of Govt. Colleges of Rajnandgaon District (C.G.) as Principal Investigator.

Prof. Garcha has been a Member of Board of Studies of University and Autonomous Colleges.

She has presented papers in National and International Seminars/Conferences and Workshops and also organized the same.
She has 32 years of teaching experience in Higher Education and also visited various Institutions for Expert Lectures and Resource Person and chaired Technical Sessions during National Seminars.

Beside teaching and research, she has served in NCC as an Associate NCC Officer for 19 Years with A Grade during both Pre-Commission and Refresher-Cum Promotion Courses at WOTS Gwalior.

She is also an active member of Organizations like AINET, ELT@I and INTACH.

Email Id: garchaharpreetkaur@gmail.com

English Department Faculties

S No	Faculty Photo	Faculty Name	Qualification	Department	Designation	Mobile No
1		Dr. (Smt.) Harpreet Kaur Garcha	Ph.D.	English	Professor and HOD	09424115915

English Department Photos